OS41C:
Ocean Salinity and Water Cycle Variability and Change I Posters

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Jacqueline Boutin, LOCEAN, Paris Cedex 05, France and J. Thomas Farrar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Paul James Durack, Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Livermore, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  J. Thomas Farrar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Jacqueline Boutin, LOCEAN CNRS, LOCEAN laboratory, Paris, France and Eric J Lindstrom, Nasa Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  J. Thomas Farrar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1214
 
Investigating the Physical Basis of Aquarius/SAC-D Salinity Retrievals’ Regional SST Bias
Joel P Scott, Thomas Meissner and Frank J Wentz, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA, United States
1215
 
Assimilation of Satellite Sea Surface Salinity Fields: Validating Ocean Analyses and Identifying Errors in Surface Buoyancy Fluxes
Avichal Mehra1, Sudhir Nadiga1, Eric J Bayler2 and David Behringer1, (1)Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD, United States, (2)National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States
1216
 
Sea Surface Salinity Under Rain Cells: SMOS and in-Situ Observations
Jacqueline Boutin1, Nicolas Martin1, Gilles P Reverdin1, Simon Morisset1, Xiaobin Yin1, Luca Centurioni2 and Nicolas Reul3, (1)LOCEAN, Paris Cedex 05, France, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)IFREMER, Plouzané, France
1217
 
Spatial and Temporal Statistics for Validating Aquarius Sea Surface Salinity Measurements with Argo in Situ Observations
Elizabeth Mannshardt1, Katarina Sucic1, Frederick Bingham2 and Montserrat Fuentes1, (1)North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Statistics, Raleigh, NC, United States, (2)University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, United States
1218
 
Assessment of the Aquarius Space-borne Sea Surface Salinity Retrievals in Polar Ocean
Emmanuel Dinnat1, Ludovic Brucker1 and Irma Otilia Caraballo Álvarez2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University de Puerto Rico, Caguas, PR, United States
1219
 
Improving Aquarius Sea Surface Salinity Estimates in the Southern Ocean: Response Surface Models Link Salinity and Temperature
Chase Mueller, University of Texas-San Antonio, Minnesota City, MN, United States and Hongjie Xie, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
1220
 
Lagrangian modeling of Aquarius surface salinity in the Bay of Bengal
Mara Freilich1,2 and Amala Mahadevan2, (1)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
1221
 
An Examination of the Sea Surface Salinity - Fresh Water Flux Relationship Using Satellite Observations
Pingping Xie1, Arun Kumar1, Yan Xue1 and W. Timothy Liu2, (1)NOAA/NCEP Climate Prediction Center, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
1222
 
Connections Between a High-Resolution Model and Aquarius Salinity Measurements
Elizabeth Douglass, Naval Research Lab, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States and James G Richman, Naval Research Lab Stennis Space Center, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
1223
 
Sea surface salinity variability in the East China Sea observed by the Aquarius instrument
Seungbum Kim1, Jae-Hak Lee2, Paolo de Matthaeis3, Simon H Yueh4, chang-Soo Hong2, Ig_Chan Pang5 and Gary S E Lagerloef6, (1)Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)KORDI Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute, Ansan, South Korea, (3)Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Jeju National University, Jeju, South Korea, (6)Earth & Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States
1224
 
Validation of SMOS with Malaspina surface drifter data
Joaquim Ballabrera, Antonio Turiel, Joaquín Salvador, Pere Fernández and Jordi Font, ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
1225
 
Salty Anomalies Forced by Central American Gap Winds: Aquarius Observations
Semyon A Grodsky, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, James Carton, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Abderruhim Bentamy, IFREMER, Plouzané, France
1226
 
Global River Discharge Variability Revealed by Aquarius and SMOS Sea Surface Salinity
Hrishikesh Arvind Chandanpurkar1, John T Reager2 and James S Famiglietti1,2, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
1227
 
The Seasonal Water Cycle over the India Subcontinent Indicated in the Correlated Analysis of Aquarius, GRACE and River Discharge Data
Simon H Yueh1, Wenqing Tang2, Alexander Fore1, Akiko Hayashi1, Rajat Bindlish3, Tong Lee1 and Thomas J Jackson4, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States, (4)USDA ARS, Pendleton, OR, United States
1228
 
Relating river discharges to salinity changes
Xiaosu Xie and W. Timothy Liu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
1229
 
The time-variable position of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current salinity fronts from Aquarius data
Denis Volkov1,2, Shenfu Dong1,2 and Gustavo Jorge Goni1, (1)Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, FL, United States, (2)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States
1230
 
Investigating the Possible Mechanisms by Which the Salinity Fronts Form and Grow Under the Pacific Intertropical Convergence Zone
Hsun-Ying Kao, Earth and Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States and Gary S E Lagerloef, Earth & Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States
1231
 
To What Extent Aquarius’ Sampling Pattern Affects the Estimated Amplitude of Tropical Instability Waves?
Tong Lee, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
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